18. do not boast against the branches. But if thou boast, know that thou dost not bear the root, but the root thee.
19. Thou wilt say then, The branches were broken off that I might be grafted in.
20. Good; because of their unbelief they were broken off, but thou by faith art standing. Do not be highminded, but fear
21. that if God did not forgive the natural branches, neither shall he forgive thee.
22. Behold, therefore, the goodness and severity of God: on those who fell, severity, but toward thee, goodness if thou continue in his goodness; otherwise thou also shalt be cut off.
23. And even them, if they do not continue in unbelief, shall be grafted in, for God is powerful enough to graft them in again.
24. For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature and wert grafted contrary to nature into the good olive tree, how much more shall these, which are the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree?